The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.47

c13.47

Thus the two groups of precise concordances noted by us between Greek and Indian medicine refer to the same period, anterior to the expedition of Alexander in India, an expedition about which it is generally said that it marked the first contact between India and Greece. In order to interpret correctly the concordances noted above, we will, therefore, have to see if the two worlds presenting them were, at that time, in reality, totally strangers to each other.